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A bigger carpet.

That's not normal @alexpea. Send me a mail and I'll see if we can sort it out.

OK I went a bit mad there and started worrying (seriously) about my mental health and addictive buying behaviour. I’ve ended up returning the Moogerfoogers and the Glou-Glou and feel a lot saner already.

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Call it Brian, after all, it's nearly christmas!

I've dabbled in rap-style genres over the years. Enjoyed some of the gangsta period in the 90's - NWA, onyx and so on. Had a couple of cypress Hill albums, funkdoobiest, the goats and so on. The Judgement Night OST really got my interest. Collaborations between guitar based bands and rap artists. I still think it's a great album. Del the funky homosapian with Dinosaur Jr, teenage fan cub and de la soul, run dmc and living colour, Faith No More and boo yaa tribe... Classic! This rocks! https://g.co/kgs/uycBwv

They are not a standard size, so you will struggle to replace them without leaving gaps unless you get some custom pickup surrounds made up, you might have to do some additional routing also. Why in such a hurry before you've even heard what the stock ones sound like? The stock pickups are louder, more lows and less highs than typical PJs, but they sound great. If you want to drop replacements straight in, you would be better off looking at one of the newer BB models (e.g. BB235, 435, 735A) that use traditional size pickups. The stock ones on the new models are voiced more like vintage pickups (more mids/highs, less lows) and you may be surprised to find they sound as good as whatever you were planning on putting in there!

I think you`ve made a sound decision there, Andy, sometimes things can just not develop the way we want, and walking away isn`t failure, it`s progress - progression to what`s new. All the best with both your new musical venture, and with your soon to be arriving daughter.

Yup, it’s more of a duck egg blue

I have the twin of this, except it is the Fender logo Squier. Fabulous bass.

Looks that way. I really liked the ones I had, much more than the later JV’s I owned, and in fact many other P’s too. Enjoy.

My nomination would have to go to the Psilos bass because of its uniqueness and craftsmanship but..... Bastav also needs to get a big mention tho for both his builds they are both stunning

It would really depend on the type of music for me. If I were in a band where the bass was a supporting instrument, blending in with the drums and providing a good platform on which the other instruments shine then the Markbass, but if I wanted the bass to have its own "identity" then the GK. This isn`t to say the Markbass is bland, far from it, for classic Precision/Motown sounds Markbass are excellent, but I just find that the GK sound is better if wanting the bass in the forefront rather than the background. That said, as you`ve got the B7K you`ve the added eq/drive options for creating an identity, or coming more forward in the mix so in that case having the Markbass amp is covering all - pardon the pun - bases. Solid/background on its own, driven etc with B7K.

Another one for the Radial Tonebone Bassbone here. A great two channel pre-amp with two different types of EQ with an assignable boost circuit, plus XLR DI out and parallel amp out. It does need it's own power supply, tho. I have the original version - I see the present one has grown a loop circuit, and sensibly moved the XLR output to the back of the unit, too...

i have a Radial Bassbone,its a high quality twin channel amp and Di in a floor box with lots of useable features,which you can use without anything else.There's no typical answer here,some pub bands are reasonably quiet and get by with a good live backline mix and a bit help from a pa,vocals and a bit drum perhaps.Our set up is full range PA Which everything runs through including drums ,cymbals etc then being a rock band we have the usual heavy helping of backline which really for me is a glorified monitor but some gigs i have no real out front monitoring to help me

Having played one of these as well as several EB3s, I can categorically state that the Warwick has pretty much nothing in common with the Gibson models except that it may superficially look the same to someone who doesn't know much about bass guitars.

This gave me some serious gip at first. Still does. Just when I think yep got this , there's another little great run I haven't quite got. we gig this now and it took me some 6 weeks of constant practicing it before it was even close but...its getting there. This guy in the YT clip has it really sorted. You have to detune half a step to play in record key. We are lucky that our singer actually wanted it up a semi tone so i can play it in normal tuning.

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Loving this guys. What's kinda interesting is both what different / eclectic tastes we have (I guess no real surprise) but also starting to see a few albums get mentioned more than once already. So in return for all of this wonderful musical chocolate box selection if we get to around 100 responses between us, I'll return the favour by trawling through everyone's responses and seeing if there is an emergent BC hall of fame in terms of favourite albums of all time. Rolling Stone magazine eat your heart out: this is a musicians' and not a music critic's list!

Old Squier - I think it would look nice in a fender-style font.

This discussion should help. A simple solution that should easily fit in your car. Again assuming the PA is suitable for putting bass FOH.

Worth posting this then. I think it's up on BC in another thread, but for those unaware...

After Perinuem Osiris-Bontoff, heir to the Duchy of Greater Anushire?

Fun fact - my great grandmother and great aunt used to work in catering at Air Studios in Montserrat at the time The Police were doing a chunk of recording out there. That’s my claim to fame anyway!

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Me too. I suffer from an overactive knife and fork.

All three have been mentioned before but not in by the same person... Pearl Jam, Ten Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction Paul Simon, Graceland

Keeping the No Doubt connection, i’m Learning It’s My Life by Talk Talk. Toughest bassline i’ve Learned yet but i’ll definitely level up as a player once I get it. lovely bassline, am looking forward to wowing our fans when we gig it ??

Like every else I don't really do all time favourites, but these are up there. Tower Of Power- Back To Oakland: This ones a playlist of the full album.

So what we've learnt is that a speaker designed to relay an entire live band at volumes higher than the band itself can easily cope with just dealing with a single bass guitar, who'da thunkit?

On a serious note, and for anyone who is actually interested - it held up very well with a drummer and 4 (!) guitars.. I was adjusting volume down quite a bit... No funny noises, no parping, and loads of bottom end. I suspect the k12.2 would have been far too much for the room. I was originally going to run it out to the PA as well - but quickly came to the conclusion that it would be total overkill

I saw Chris Squire break a string & he sang the bass line .

An xlr lead from the Di on the back of the amp (strangely labelled line out on there) into your pa mixer will have that sorted so it's just a matter of hearing yourself, the obvious options are; 1-Bass cabinet under that head as normal. 2-Put your bass through the monitors on stage that face back at you if they are decent. 3-Get some in ear monitors that are fed from the pa mixer. It mostly depends what PA you have?

Did you replace the smell of weed and lines of coke with a Haze plugin and sherbet dibdab too? You have a lot to answer for young man.

Took it out to a jam session today. @&£!*^ me its loud. No parpy noises on the low notes. Very clear and loads of projection. Cor.

Do you want it to colour your sound? - this is not necessarily a bad thing, an EBS Multicomp will add some edge (Timmy C uses one) for example. If you want something transparent to bring out the tone of your instrument then the Super Symmetry is probably as good as ytou’re Going to get in a stomp box.

I love this album. Badbadnotgood are killer musicians!

I once bought a used Wal from a shop in London. Took it to Pete at Wal HQ for a service and he said it had been nicked a few years earlier. I gave it straight back to him, and he gave me a brand new Wal as a thank you

What cabs are you using? I’ve got a Puma 900 running into a single TKS1126 which is a power-thirsty cab that can happily deal with whatever you throw at it. It’s a serious “one cab solution” that pairs really well with high wattage at 8 ohms. Not all cabs share that attribute so it’s worth bearing in mind. As far as raw “heft”. A Puma 500 into two cabs will give you more than a Puma 900 into a single cab, providing you were using the same cabs in each example. Basically, you’ll gain more by doubling your cabs than by doubling your watts.

Completely forgot that we have an excerpt on Youtube of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3XyipGErI Bit weird that the clip starts with the solo, but whatever haha, you get the idea. Headphones/decent speakers absolutely necessary. Si

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Great buyer, fast payment, great communication -- one of the good guys!